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Five Things You Need to Read Today

1. The Weird Neo-Puritanism of the Anti-Kavanaugh Crusade

The contemporary left, with its nannyish campus sex rules and “rape culture” panic, has been inching itself toward a kind of neo-puritan ethic regarding sex. But during the controversy over Brett Kavanaugh, this new puritanism has been oddly widening to encompass just about everything, from college drinking to the crude humor of teenage boys.

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